from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most …

whether there is convergence in monetary transmission. The countries included are: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the … Netherlands and Spain, and the sample period is 1980-2000. We conclude that major differences in pass-through exist in our sample …

the case of France. We build a simple model that incorporates the main features of the system, such as the uniform premium … France we find that the stylized factsʺ of the system correspond to our results. Additionally, the policies implemented by …

This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of …. The wave of state divestitures reached Italy later than other OECD countries. A deep-rooted tradition of state … attempts at privatization of the 1980s, delaying until 1992 the start of largescale privatizations. These were imposed on …

This paper carries out an overview of the recent history of privatisation in Spain. At this point, the paper focuses on …

France lived through a long period of nationalization until the early 1980s, when nearly all the largest industrials … firms as well as all the banks and public services were state-owned. Since then, a series of privatization moves have caused … telecommunications operator France Telecom was simultaneously subjected to the deregulation of the telecom market in the world and to a …